Delayed positivity of serological reactions in secondary syphilis against the background of severe HIV-induced immunosuppression
- Authors: Prozherin S.V.1, Podymova A.S.1
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Affiliations:
- Sverdlovsk Regional Center for Prevention and Control of AIDS
- Issue: Vol 99, No 2 (2023)
- Pages: 63-69
- Section: GUIDELINES FOR PRACTITIONERS
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/0042-4609/article/view/131358
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.25208/vdv1413
- ID: 131358
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In recent decades, there has been an increase in syphilis associated with HIV infection cases, especially among men who have sex with men. The global prevalence of syphilitic infection among people living with HIV exceeds population rates. Concomitant HIV infection can affect not just the clinical course of syphilis, but also the production of antibodies to Treponema pallidum. In the presence of severe immunodeficiency in patients with HIV infection associated with secondary syphilis, the results of non-treponemal and/or treponemal tests may be false-negative or may become positive at a later date. Such cases are known, they occur infrequently and cause some diagnostic difficulties. The article presents a clinical observation of delayed positivity of serological reactions in secondary syphilis in a 23-year-old HIV-positive man from the authors' practice. The tactic of managing HIV-infected patients with clinical symptoms of the secondary period syphilis and negative results of serological tests is discussed.
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Sergey V. Prozherin
Sverdlovsk Regional Center for Prevention and Control of AIDS
Email: progsherin@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9956-4700
SPIN-code: 5354-4893
Dermatovenerologist
Russian Federation, 46, Yasnaya str., 620102 YekaterinburgAnzhelika S. Podymova
Sverdlovsk Regional Center for Prevention and Control of AIDS
Author for correspondence.
Email: glvrach@livehiv.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7345-0801
MD, Dr. Sci. (Med.)
Russian Federation, 46, Yasnaya str., 620102 YekaterinburgReferences
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